The #hashtag story is about disempowering the #mainstreaming in our minds. That’s the first step, breaking the spell, realising we don’t have to accept their frame.

The second step is the affinity group forming circle — gathering with others who see through the mess of smoke and mirrors. That circle gives us the power to build the #OMN shovel.

The last step #OGB is the work of composting. Taking all the #techshit, the failed projects, the poisoned culture, and turning it back into soil

What we do with the soil we create is up to us. That’s where the future grows. #KISS

https://hamishcampbell.com/hashtags/

The #hashtag story is about disempowering the #mainstreaming in our minds. That’s the first step, breaking the spell, realising we don’t have to accept their frame.

The second step is the affinity group forming circle — gathering with others who see through the mess of smoke and mirrors. That circle gives us the power to build the #OMN shovel.

The last step #OGB is the work of composting. Taking all the #techshit, the failed projects, the poisoned culture, and turning it back into soil

What we do with the soil we create is up to us. That’s where the future grows. #KISS

https://hamishcampbell.com/hashtags/

A detox-focused UX for the #openweb is shifting focus from passive content consumption to active participation in meaningful communities. #Mainstreaming Social Media: Digital Drugs, Not Social Connection https://hamishcampbell.com/mainstreaming-social-media-digital-drugs-not-social-connection/

A detox-focused UX for the #openweb is shifting focus from passive content consumption to active participation in meaningful communities. #Mainstreaming Social Media: Digital Drugs, Not Social Connection https://hamishcampbell.com/mainstreaming-social-media-digital-drugs-not-social-connection/

If you can't link to a working URL you don't link. And any mainstreaming links are placed at the end of the article. This is #nothingnew path you can see it implemented in 2006 here https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/actions/2006/climatecamp/

The right-wing feeds on division.
The left-wing grows from trust.

This #KISS truth is buried under decades of shit: Stalinism’s dead weight, Postmodernism’s fog, Neoliberalism’s rot. Now we stand in the stink - social, political, technological mess. We don’t deny it. We compost it. Turn the pile. Let it breathe. Make decay into fertile ground. From this soil we grow trust, commons, care.

What blocks this? The #mainstreaming demand to “use proper channels.” But they own the channels. They wrote the rules. They staffed the committees. It’s a maze built for defeat. “Proper channels” exist to: bleed energy, bury dissent in paperwork, trap us in stakeholder theatre. The outcome is always the same: power stays safe where it sits.

That’s what really scares the #fashionistas + #mainstreaming crew: We don’t need them at all.
We can walk away, compost their waste, and build living alternatives. The machine of exclusion won’t “respect” you. It’s built not to. You’re noise to them, not signal. The dignity comes from composting their rot into fertile ground - together. Pick up a shovel. The work is ours.

#OMN#KISS #deathcult

#mainstreaming history is largely crap. What would real history look like. https://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/origins.html

“How to push” because the #fashionistas, the #geekproblem, and the #mainstreaming crew all move - but in circles, avoiding the compost pile, polishing surfaces while the heap rots.

Shift their habits into usefulness

#fashionistas crave visibility - give them the role of spreading compost metaphors, making the work look fresh.

#geekproblem crave edge cases and puzzles - hand them the “hard” parts (trust plumbing, metadata sieves) where their obsessiveness is an asset.

#mainstreaming crave recognition - frame #OMN as “the next big thing everyone will need to join,” so they can be early adopters without risking reputation.

Turn their weaknesses into leverage, rather than fighting them.

#KISS

Shift their habits into usefulness

#fashionistas crave visibility - give them the role of spreading compost metaphors, making the work look fresh.

#geekproblem crave edge cases and puzzles - hand them the “hard” parts (trust plumbing, metadata sieves) where their obsessiveness is an asset.

#mainstreaming crave recognition - frame #OMN as “the next big thing everyone will need to join,” so they can be early adopters without risking reputation.

Turn their weaknesses into leverage, rather than fighting them.

#KISS

“How to push” because the #fashionistas, the #geekproblem, and the #mainstreaming crew all move - but in circles, avoiding the compost pile, polishing surfaces while the heap rots.

@rooftopjaxx @info @RobertoArchimboldi

I like this history as balance to #mainstreaming view https://www.apc.org/en/news/internet-radically-different-place-because-apc

And as tech is embedded ideology, the people who created the internet created a computer network to work without a state this is a good definition of anarchy.

We need to be clear about "native" and non-native paths.